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LISLE, Ill. – Five Benedictine University players scored in double-figures and Jerrell Tribble scored a season high 28 points to help lift the Eagles to a 91-76 win over Rockford College in the Northern Athletics Conference quarterfinal game at the Rice Center.

 

 

The Eagles (19-7, 13-3) shot 46 percent in the first half to go up by as many as 14. With less than five minutes remaining, Rockford's (10-15, 6-10) Dominique Walker hit a three that would send the Regents on a 12-6 run and come within three. Dario Jokic hit a three in the final second to send the Eagles up 46-40 at halftime.

 

 

Second half buckets from Terry Licht and AJ Brown ignited the BenU scoring, going up by as many as 14.

 

 

With under eight minutes on the clock, Robert Malone would cut the RC deficit to seven, but that is as close as the Regents would get as Benedictine clung to a double-figure lead for the final six minutes of play to take the 91-76 victory in the NAC Tournament quarterfinals.

 

 

Tribble led the Eagles in scoring with 28 points on 11-13 shooting and also grabbed six rebounds. Snelling had a season high 26 rebounds and also scored 15 points for his 18^th double-double of the year. Green scored 17 points and was just shy of a double-double with nine assists while Licht was 5-7 from the field scoring 12 points. Brown rounded out the high scorers for BenU with 10 points and grabbed six rebounds.